Oxford college to investigate its own role in colonialism

Richard Adams, The Guardian, 21st March 2019 | 10 June 2019

"An Oxford college is to examine its contribution to creating and maintaining Britain’s colonial empire, in a pioneering effort to crowdsource and “decolonialise” its own imperialist past. St John’s College is advertising for a new academic post whose appointee will work on a research project named...

Row over bid to extend centenary events to cover Ireland and India

Ben Quinn, The Guardian, 1st April 2019 | 10 June 2019

"Government board chair blocks effort to mark events in which Britain committed atrocities Members of the government’s advisory board on the first world war centenary are at loggerheads over extending the commemorations to mark politically challenging events such as the Irish war of independence and...

India’s Amritsar massacre bore the ‘made in Ireland’ mark

Ronan McGreevy, The Irish Times, 13th April 2019 | 10 June 2019

"After a long and tempestuous life in the service of British imperialism, Sir Michael O’Dwyer had got used to a quiet life. He endured years of recriminations over the Amritsar massacre which took place on April 13th, 1919. The episode in which British Indian troops opened fire on peaceful demonstra...

Churchill's policies contributed to 1943 Bengal famine – study

Michael Safi,The Guardian, 29th March 2019 | 10 June 2019

"Study is first time weather data has been used to argue wartime policies exacerbated famine The Bengal famine of 1943 was the only one in modern Indian history not to occur as a result of serious drought, according to a study that provides scientific backing for arguments that Churchill-era British...

My father was killed on Bloody Sunday. Britain must confront its colonial legacy

Tony Doherty, The Guardian, 16 March 2019 | 10 June 2019

"The decision to only charge one soldier is astonishing. Little England must face up to the absolute horrors of its past The decision by the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland to bring murder and attempted murder charges only against Soldier F for his alleged actions on Bloody Sunday as...

HOLA - ANOTHER BRITISH SCANDAL?

Confronting Heritage, 3 March 2019 | 10 June 2019

"On this day, sixty years ago, ten men were proclaimed dead in a British colonial detention camp at Hola in the Coast Province of Kenya. Three days later an eleventh man was declared dead. The British government claimed their deaths were the result of drinking contaminated water. What soon became ap...

When the Camera Was a Weapon of Imperialism. (And When It Still Is.)

Teju Cole, The New York Times Magazine, 6th February 2019 | 10 June 2019

"I first saw the photograph some years ago, online. Later, I tracked it down to its original source: “In Afric’s Forest and Jungle: Or Six Years Among the Yorubans,” a memoir published in 1899 by the Rev. R.H. Stone. It shows a crowd in what is now Nigeria, but what was then Yorubaland under British...

Q & A - Is there a witch-hunt against ex British soldiers?

Ireland v UK 2018

Judgement of ECHR | 20 March 2018

ECHR have rejected application by Irish Government to revise the original judgement in the Hooded Men case ROI v UK 1978. The 1978 judgement found that the treatment constituted inhuman & degrading treatment, but not torture. Today the ECHR has upheld that judgement 6-1 (Judge O'Leary dissenting- se...

As Glasgow University owns up to slavery wealth, others urged to follow

Event to Mark International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

| 23 June 2017

26th June marks the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture. The PFC, along with our colleagues in CAJ, Amnesty International and Matrix Chambers marked the day by outlining evidence of torture carried out by the RUC and British Army during the 1970's in the north of Ireland at an eve...